A new report by the UN Health Agency also shows that in Europe in 2023, six out of 10 trained doctors out of the region, while the number is even higher for nurses.
In the light of these findings, and the fact that many Western countries and northern Europe are becoming “very dependent” on these foreign workers, WHO asks for a more fair and more sustainable migration of health workers.
Medical care gaps at home
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By 2030, Europe is expected to have a deficit of almost one million health workers, said the UN agency.
He pointed out that Romania has managed to reduce the number of doctors who leave the country in recent years, from 1,500 to 461, mainly offering better salaries, training and working conditions.
‘Innovation Index’ shows Switzerland Top, since China makes the 10 best
Switzerland, Sweden, the United States, the Republic of Korea and Singapore are the most innovative countries in the world.
According to the UN Agency, the World Intellectual Property Organization, Wipo, whose global innovation index 2025 shows that the United Kingdom, Finland, the Netherlands, Denmark are also in the top 10, together with China for the first time.
In other findings, Wipo said that growth in innovation investments is slowing down, “cloudy” future forecasts on intellectual property trends.
Middle income climbers
Around 80 indicators are used for the UN report, ranging from expenses in research and development, risk capital agreements, high -tech exports and intellectual property presentations.
The last WIPO report shows that the average income economies led by China, India (38) and Türkiye (43º) have continued to raise the innovation scale turning ideas into reality.
However, in the last five years, it is Saudi Arabia (46), Qatar (48), Brazil (52), Mauricio (53º), Bahrein (62) and Jordan (65), who have achieved the fastest progress.
The report finds that Nigeria could not protect women and girls.
Nigeria has not been able to do enough to prevent specific attacks on schools, it was short to criminalize the kidnapping and marriage violation, and by protecting abduction and stigmatization schoolgirls, according to a new report by a key body of independent experts of the UN that monitor discrimination against women.
The repeated ruling “is equivalent to systematic and serious violations,” of women and girls’ rights, said the president of the UN Committee on Wednesday about the elimination of discrimination against women (CEDAW), Nahla Haidar.
The report was published on Wednesday after a mission to the country in December 2023, where the members of the committee met with officials from several departments and agencies, armed forces and police representatives, and victims of kidnapping.
Chibok kidnapping
Initially, the mission received information about the massive kidnapping of 276 girls at the Chibok school by Boko Haram in 2014. Eighty -two escaped, 103 were released in exchange for prisoners, while at least 91 are still in captivity or their destination is unknown.
The Cedaw delegation was the first UN agency that visited the school from the kidnapping, according to school staff.
“The kidnapping of Chibok girls was not an isolated tragedy, but part of a series of mass kidnappings aimed at schools and communities,” said Mrs. Haidar.
He added that “at least 1,400 students have been kidnapped from schools since Chibok’s kidnapping.”
The restored sunscreen to the List of essential medications of the WHO acclaimed as lifeguard for people with albinismo
UN independent experts have welcomed the decision of the World Health Organization (WHO) to restore sunscreen to their lists of essential medication models, those that meet the priority health needs of populations.
They described the movement as “an important development in the long struggle to get attention and find practical, effective and sustainable remedies for unnecessary deaths caused by skin cancer between people with albinism.”
Skin cancer is the main cause of death for people with albinism worldwide: a preventable tragedy, stressed experts, linked to bad consciousness, limited access to sunscreen and slow institutional and government responses.
Lifesaver
They emphasized that WHO’s decision could “transform people’s daily lives with albinism, including life expectancy,” but warned that its impact will depend on the political will of governments and the commitment to integrate sunscreen into national health systems and supply chains.
“Provision and access to sunscreen for people with albinism is not a cosmetic exercise. It is a fundamental human right,” experts said.
The OM decision is also consistent with the international obligations of states to prevent damage to foreseeable human rights arising from climate change and protecting the most disproportionately affected.
